East Cleveland: 2 in custody after armed robbery

EAST CLEVELAND -- Two of three people wanted in connection with an armed robbery Tuesday night have been taken into custody.

A patrol officer spotted the trio running from a business on Hayden Avenue just after 11 p.m. on January 28.

Two of the suspects were armed. The third carried a backpack.

The officer chased the three into Cleveland where on Glenside Road, one of the men fired at officers. An officer returned fire and police caught up with the man near East 140th and Castalia. The suspect had a gunshot wound to the leg and was treated at the hospital.

Police caught up with a second individual, a juvenile, trying to break into a house following the chase.

Both guns carried by the suspects and the backpack, carried by the juvenile, have been recovered.